➡ The text discusses the importance of supporting local businesses, particularly those owned by black entrepreneurs. It emphasizes that success is not determined by race, but by the quality of service and products offered. The text also highlights an event called ‘Spind in the Black’, which aims to boost the local black economy by showcasing goods and services from over 100 vendors. The event is a response to corporations cutting back on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and it encourages self-reliance and interdependence within the community.

I want to start in Chicago. I want to start in Chicago. We got a lot of subjects to cover. I want to talk about AOC. I want to talk about Latisha James. We definitely going to get into Pete Hegseth shortly. Of course, I’m going to bring you all up to date on the Chinese tariffs. Men are now staying at home and it’s a thing. It’s like really becoming more popular to be a stay-at-home husband while women continue to excel in corporate America. Also, Kamala Harris said it’s rumored within her circle that she is going to make a decision on her political future.

So, we’re going to talk about all of that today but the first thing I want to do is I want to spend 10 minutes talking about Chicago and the reason that that is is because Chicago had their black only business event. No, they wanted other people to participate. They wanted other people to spend on black businesses but it was only marketed for black businesses to be able to appear. Make sure y’all hit a like for the algorithm. Subscribe to the channel and turn on your notifications. This is what was happening with Spend It In The Black in Chicago this weekend.

Check it out. Before we get into this, can we cancel the whole framing phrase of generational wealth? Can we please cancel that whenever we’re talking about black, black, black, black, black, black, black-owned businesses, all of this stuff. Is it possible for us to walk away from the term generational wealth? If it is not the most overused, overused phrase and term probably over the last five, six years that I’ve ever heard in my entire life, it’s not applicable to everything, respectfully. The term generational wealth is not applicable to any time somebody spends their money with a black business or any time somebody buys a home.

It’s not always applicable. We gotta stop just using these terms so loosely. It just, it don’t fly anymore. We gotta chill, y’all. Honest to God, we really need to chill out on the whole black wealth term. More than 100 businesses set up shop along 75th Street Saturday for Spend In The Black, a chance for the city to spend money exclusively at these black-owned businesses. What we do on 75th will have an impact on what happens on 79th. What happens on teen drive has an impact on what happens on Madison. From Italian ice and coffee to homemade bracelets and beauty products, there is something for everyone.

A lot of us are small business owners and we don’t get a lot of exposure. This is so stupid. Y’all, I hope y’all get rich off Italian ice and homemade bracelets, y’all. Exposure, this is giving us exposure. It’s a blessing, an honor, and we are grateful to be a part of it. Spend In The Black was spearheaded by 6th Ward Alderman William Hall and Dr. Charlie Dates, the pastor of Salem and Progressive Baptist Churches. The two say so many businesses wanted to participate that they actually had to build a wait list. We can literally see a half a million to a million dollars spent between three blocks.

We just want people to know about a secret on 75th Street. This is about resurrecting the black dollar. So rather than being in the red, we’re spending in the black. Dream Agorum owns Burst Into Books, the only bookstore in the Roseland community, she says. For me, it’s more than sales. I want to meet all the other vendors. I want to meet the families that come out. Let’s continue. I’m going to save my commentary. We’re going to continue. On the South Side today, a celebration of black owned businesses and empowering consumers to rethink where they got to be painful for the white lady to have to even read this as a requirement to be an anchor on a Chicago news station.

Spend their hard earned money. WJN’s Jewel Hillary reports on an event called Spend In The Black. So I have woke up this morning and chose to purchase low sweet peach cobbler. Yes, it was great. That’s one. I didn’t stop there. And then this is a mini banana pudding. Okay, we got to do better, y’all. God is my witness. We got to do better. We genuinely got to do better, y’all. Seriously, seriously. The first thing that that’s problematic about this situation is, and I was talking to, you know, a couple of my black friends that are incredibly successful and that are millionaires also.

And it’s funny because some of the things that they were expressing to me was, Anton, I don’t understand it because of course I brought it up in a group chat. And then we all kind of got on a FaceTime together and they said, Anton, I don’t understand why these people are labeling themselves as a black owned business that basically alienates. Because if you look in the background of this video, at any point, you don’t see anybody from any demographic shopping here. Now, Anton, some of these people that has never ever been successful in their life will sit there and jump in my comments and say, but Anton, other communities do this or other communities do that or whatever, blah, blah, blah.

They don’t alienate themselves. I mean, aside from clearly it being racist, and we’ll get to that shortly, as a business owner, my goal is to expand and sell to as many people as possible. And you would not believe the amount of people that feel disenfranchised or don’t want to be included because you have now made this a thing and a barrier to entry instead of them focusing on how great your business is. Waller was 100% right. Waller was 100% right. Instead of them focusing on how great your business is because, in my opinion, I want to sell to everybody.

I want to sell to Japanese people, Chinese people, Hispanic people, white people, black people, Dominican, Jamaican. I want to put my product in the hands of as many people as possible. Why would I alienate them and say, oh, no, no, no, only black businesses to come over here, even when you’re looking at it from a legislative or from a city perspective. You know how difficult it is to fill up all of these commercial sectors, especially in a blue city that crime is out of control. I just did a video this morning about how they had street takeovers and it was burning up the streets and it was zero police presence because they didn’t have any police on duty to come and stop these people and these young boys from over there tearing up the streets of Chicago.

And they remove shot spotter and they down thousands of police officers and they can’t even update their fleet of police cars and get the maintenance that they need because the tax revenue and the tax base is going down. Do you know how difficult it is where they have almost upwards of a 50% vacancy rate on the most iconic? What is it? The miracle mile, the whatever it is in Chicago where people used to go and shop. They have almost a 50% vacancy rate of stores, big stores, small stores, small businesses, large businesses. You know how difficult it is to get people to open up and actually participate economically in your space when you’ve only alienated them and you tell them that they are not welcome.

Quote on quote. Hey, you can come and spend your money here, but you can’t necessarily come over here and be like us. They’re not like us. They’re not like us playing Kendrick Lamar in the background. And then you think that you’re going to thrive off of selling a banana pudding and shaved ice cream. Why would you limit yourself? The magnificent mile? Is that what it is? Shaved ice cream? That’s what you got? That’s what’s up. And then it’s racist. And then it’s racist. Well, anti, how is it racist? How is it prejudice? Well, if you had a white business or a conglomerate of white businesses say, hey, listen, we want you to come and bring your black dollar and your Asian dollar and all of that over to this area and make sure that you take care of it and make sure you run it up on these white businesses.

But this is a white business by white. Spending the white. This is a spin in the white. Anything. This is the word of God. And this is how I live my life. And so y’all can obviously dispute it or say what you want to say. But anything that I wouldn’t want done to me, I wouldn’t do to other people. It’s that simple. Anything that I wouldn’t do on to do on to somebody else, I wouldn’t want it done to me. If we had a white only event, y’all would go ahead and create the memes, have the KKK symbol on it, put the Confederate flag all over it and be trying to boycott it.

All Target did was say, hey, we were moving diversity, equity and inclusion. It doesn’t mean that we don’t get rid of any of the people that’s our vendors, but we just want to make sure that we got the best people and we had the best vendors here. And y’all was up there showing y’all black tail showing your tail. It was people that didn’t even have enough money to go and shop and buy some of the stuff that they was buying and target in the first place. You up there with Klarna and they would go and fill up whole baskets and leave them at the register and say to the to the cashiers.

See, ain’t y’all a diversity. You know what y’all got rid of diversity, equity, inclusion and leave it all out there like the cashier is a CEO or is a part of the board. So, OK, now they can get some overtime, putting the products back on the shelf. I don’t think that the cashier really care like that. Jay Deshawn says it’s still whites only in some places, OG, because you decide that you don’t want to move there and that’s cool. And guess what? White businesses fail, too. White people are poor, too. Y’all keep comparing yourself to a social construct that is given to you so that it keeps you poor.

When you work with other people in general, guess what? You thrive. You don’t think that is white businesses failing just as much as the Hispanic businesses failing. Businesses fail every day, B. Some of the poorest places in the country is all white. That’s a fact. Some of the poorest places in the United States of America. Going back was in Arkansas with the white only businesses and see what it is. That has nothing to do with the price of tea in China. It has nothing to do with the price. This isn’t about white versus black. This is what I’m trying to communicate to people.

This is about how are you or how can you be more successful as a business owner? Why would you alienate your customer base when everything is a competition and you’re trying to sell it as many people as possible? It’s not race. The biggest thing that’s keeping the culture poor is the fact that they think that it’s a race base and it’s not. It’s a class war. All white people don’t mess with all white people. All Japanese people don’t mess with all Japanese people. They don’t care nothing about that. They’d be like, hmm. I see how much more banana pudding that we can buy.

From sweet treats and food to clothing, accessories, flowers and so much more, Natasha O’Geen joined hundreds of folks on 75th Street near King Drive for Spind in the Black. There were all these amazing corridors on the west side and the south side. You had 63rd Street, you had 75th, you had Halaski and how now unfortunately we don’t always spend with us. So these type of events are extremely valuable. Personal training coach and bodybuilder, Jerissa Upton, owns Upton House Fitness based in Hyde Park. She’s one of more than 100 vendors out on Saturday. The way that I’m living now, I feel like a completely new person and I want to give that to everybody.

While focusing on overall wellness, she says she’s also passionate about helping clients look really good. Learning how to unlock nutrition and exercise can literally aid you backwards. Sixth Ward, Otterman William Hall and Dr. Charlie Dates, senior pastor of Progressive Baptist and Salem Baptist Churches, helped spearhead Saturday’s event. The hope is for Spind in the Black to have a lasting impact, ultimately pouring a significant amount of money back into the local black economy. When you add up all of these businesses, this is a whole different tax bracket. And so SSAs, ten dollars, are formed with businesses. And so I believe that right now what we need to do is use our money in a micro way.

Along with empowering business owners and spotlighting their goods and services, Spind in the Black is a response to several corporations cutting back diversity, equity and inclusion programs. At a time when some of the bigger businesses take our dollars but do not respect our dignity, this is an opportunity to spend our dollars where our dignity is affirmed. And out of great chaos, we’ve created enormous opportunity for us to be self-reliant, to be interdependent, so that we know that we can do for ourselves and practice principles that come down from our ancestors. Fellowship Fleet, a luxury limo company that serves the city and some major institutions, also participated in the festivities.

Not so many people know about our company. Why I gotta be the one to say it? Why do I have to be the one to say the quiet part out loud? I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to do that. If I’m, and this is my this is my point right here. If I’m sending out a representation or if I’m the owner of a company and I am trying to bring visibility to a service that I provide, how can I frame this to make sure that I don’t offend the liberals and the blacks? I jumped in a black car this weekend, a black truck, and it was a black driver.

And so I called Ford and I just took the black, you know, I like to take black trucks. I like to have the trucks in order to go wherever it is and I’m a go. And so I went over instead of ordering DoorDash. I just went over to this restaurant called James Oliver and it’s a bunch of liberals in there. You know, I could tell people, you know, that no septums, they got the same look. You could tell people that are incredibly liberal, but I don’t really care about whether you liberal or conservative. I just want great food.

And James Oliver serves phenomenal food. My driver, best black truck that I’ve ever been in in my life. He was a black guy, older guy. He’s dressed in a suit. He has a suit coat on. He has mints in the in the different things. He has tissue, this and that. He’s very knowledgeable. He knows his areas. He’s able to get around. And he had a car right there just in case you wanted to ever get private services. Car is immaculate, clean, smell good, all of that stuff. And so I gave him a $40 tip because I had a short trip over to the place because the place is less than a mile away from where it is that I stay downtown.

And so I gave him a $40 tip, took his car, probably going to use them for every service going forward. What am I trying to communicate? What am I trying to communicate? How you look, how you market yourself, your service, all of this stuff matters. So if this person who owns a luxury luxury, let me replay it again for you all in the back, because we got to do better. We just got to do better. My ancestors, fellowship fleet, a luxury limo company that serves the city and some major institutions. A luxury limo company.

Are we all on the same page? Because I’m not going to say it the way that I would usually say it. I’m going to change my image. I’m going to change my image. I’m going to change my image. Do I have to say it or do I not want to say it? Let me go ahead and get the rest of this out. Also participated in the festivities. Not so many people know about our company. They don’t think that black is luxurious, but there is no opportunity where black is not luxurious. Everywhere we show up, we are excellent throughout spending the black.

So anyways, I think that’s enough here. I just wanted to keep you all up to date on what’s going on from a business perspective over in Chicago. Make sure you guys hit a like for the algorithm. Subscribe to the channel and turn on your notifications. Let me read his super chats and then we’re going to go ahead. Are we resonating here? Are we all on the same page? Okay. I go to James Oliver all the time. I can’t go to James Oliver right now, to be honest with you, because they got me on a diet.

They said, Anson, you’re going to have to get it together. Listen, my people is kicking my A, kicking my A. They got me working out. They got me on a water-based, plant-based, caloric deficit, kicking my… So James Oliver, y’all are a great, great restaurant. Even though y’all super liberal over there. I love y’all food is awesome, but for the next couple of months, they said that I can’t go to James Oliver because I got to eliminate the carbs, prevent the sugar, all of this stuff. They said, say, Anson, you got to weed on you.

They hold me accountable. This is the type of people I need around me. They kicking my A. Yeah. [tr:trw].

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